PeepinGoodArgs

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PeepinGoodArgs,

And in this debacle, I don’t WISH to be anti-social, I’m anti-social but not in a voluntary manner. I’m in my prime years and I need friends and relationships at this age but my privacy standpoint is mangling with those.

But so this isn’t a conundrum you chose. That’s why people here are so into privacy. Instagram is social, sure, but is that the kind of socializing you want? Really? We know it’s bad for the mental health of teenage girls. What’s to desire about that? What’s to desire about the algorithm that actively tries to make you hooked on the app?

These are the kinds of questions behind the privacy communities, among others.

Also, don’t lie to women. Extreme things usually only look extreme until a person understands them. Explain yourself and give them an opportunity to come around and/or be willing to make compromises. Having an Instagram account you use every now and then to verify your humanity in a virtual world seems reasonable to me.

PeepinGoodArgs,

My wife of a year younger than me is the mom in the meme. I’m 35. The joke is still alive!

PeepinGoodArgs,

As opposed to the people who don’t vote because they live under a rock or in their mom’s basement?

I mean, I’m kidding, but people you’ve never met can absolutely fuck up your life when in comes to politics.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Well, it’s the weekend, so, I’m going to do homework and play video games.

Frankly, fuck America. Most of the country clearly wants this. So I’ll let them have it. And sure, I might die, but then I’ll be done with all this bullshit and won’t have worry anymore. And when the people who wanted the dystopia the US will become have a change of heart and realize they manufactured their own chains and locked them before throwing away the key, I’ll only regret I won’t be here to say I told you so.

PeepinGoodArgs,

The esteemed privilege of potentially dying in the new American hellscape! You must envy me so much!

Really, it’s what apathy about my countrymen and women looks like. I really think we hate each other. While many on the left continue to prove me wrong to this very moment, and I see them, I honestly do not think they’ll win in the end.

PeepinGoodArgs,

It also opens up the spread of malaria as climate change makes the world more hospitable for mosquitoes

PeepinGoodArgs,

“It’s community,” a students said toward the end of class one day. “That’s the thing straight men are really missing.”

I 100% agree with this.

What straight men could learn from queer men – aside from a host of stylistic, hygienic and sex tips – is to have a greater zeal and lust for life.

Not so much with this. I love life. Still, it’d be nice to have friends to turn to.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Desperado did it right.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Now what misanthropic government would do that? Surely none exist!

PeepinGoodArgs,

Cook the bugs and eat them.

PeepinGoodArgs,

I remember when I was younger and I was at basketball practice. I was nervous pretty frequently, and so I would laugh to diffuse the tension within myself. My dad was there supervising or being an assistant coach or something. Idk. But—and I remember this very clearly—the coach told me to stop smiling because “it makes you look weak.” I looked to my dad for some sort of support and he just shrugged. Fortunately, I didn’t internalize that message.

But I always remember that moment as someone trying to crush some of the boyish joy I had in life. Like, yeah, I was nervous, and laughter seemed like a perfectly reasonable solution. But my father and the coach had grown up in a very, very different environment where moments of happiness weren’t nearly as abundant as they were in my life.

For reference, my father grew up in Atlanta, GA during the Civil Rights Era as an African American. So, it definitely wasn’t all snips, snails, and puppy-dog tails. My coach (also an African American and about my dad’s age) and my father’s emotional self-mutilation was an act of survival. I get that.

But still, looking back, it sucks a lot that they reinforced that sense of danger they’d internalized over the course of their lives and tried to pass it on to me. What sucks even more is that, while I didn’t internalize that particular patriarchal message, I did internalize others.

I just want to be happy and feel safe. Why is that so much to ask?

PeepinGoodArgs,

Pictures. Since phones got rid of the micro sd card slots, I now use a flash drive and save stuff to it.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Necessity for me, too. After three years of using Linux, I went back to school and it was needlessly difficult trying to get everything to work together. The nail in the coffin was when I had to use some proctoring software and I couldn’t use a virtual machine. I just went back to Windows.

If I didn’t have to use Windows, I’d probably still use Linux. I really enjoyed how snappy it was.

e-reader or tablet for reading academic paper

I’m reading a lot papers after I switched positions in my job. I felt reading on my display annoying. I can’t draw on the PDF easily nor able to read while I code (not without switching windows). And printing papers is annoying too. I can’t search and the physical paper pile up quickly....

PeepinGoodArgs,

LiquidText is cool af but I hated the UI. Maybe it’s become better in the last few months.

PeepinGoodArgs,

App? Uh…idk about app, per se.

Perplexity.ai is a search engine, it’s like Google on steroids. I’m researching online graduate programs, and I like how I can ask for tables to compare different programs side by side easily. With Google, I’d have to manually create that.

Perplexity.ai has an app, if that counts…

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